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It's Quake, it's awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this second copy of a longtime favorite to be able to network with my son... great game a few years ago, still plenty of fun today (and a better bargain!)

Why are so many people ignorant?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 37 / 46
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a comparison between Q3 (quake 3) and UT (UnrealTournament), the two big first person shooters in the gaming arena. Togive you a little background, I am a game reviewer for Game-Guru. I don't want to give a big comparison between UT and Q3, I just want to explain why Q3 is the better game, overall.

First of all, even though gameplay is very important, you have to consider the graphics and level design. Q3's graphics are the best out there, with volumetric textures, curved surfaces, and secular lighting. Thihs allows for organic level disign, while UT's levels are blocky and feel like lego blocks. Although Quake's levels do revolve around a single theme, and UT's has various themes, the detail in Q3 is quite unbelieveable. Skeletons lie on the ground, and statues of past ID heroes stand in the battlefield. You won't find those in UT. Another thing concering graphics, Q3 includes 30 player models, with the ability to add more characters and mods (creating variations in the game from level design to a whole new game), while UT has only 4 models and only small modification abilities.

In gameplay, UT offers the smooth tech like gameplay, where the gamer feels like he or she is just pushing buttons to make things splatter on the screen. While this may be appealing to some gamers, you must remember that the first person shooter genre's perpose is to shoot and kill people, as the name suggest. The tech style of UT doesn't give you this feeling at all. Q3, on the other hand, is furious and fast, immersing you into the dark atmosphere, and really gives you the feeling of a shooter.

In the end, there are so many things that Q3 does as good or better than UT, but that doesn't mean that UT is a bad game, just not for the style that some gamers are looking for. Thanks for reading this!

Best Deathmatch

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 59
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

OK, let's try to be fair. Q3A has great graphics, support cool technologies (Multi-processor, GeForce256's T&L). UT has great graphics too, different but still great.

For the game play, I tried both (even bought UT, and be sure, I'll buy Q3A when it's released) and here is my opinion:

You like pure deathmatch? Q3A is the answer. The gameplay is really good, and feels better than UT's. The weapons are not so fancy as UT's ones but are very well balanced and give a lot of fun.

You want something new? Play UT's Domination or Assault. They're just great teamplay and won't get you bored!

Open GL

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 74
Date: December 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game requires FULL Open GL support. Which means if you want to play it you MUST have a card with either the TNT2 or the GeForce chipset. A voodoo card just won't do. Voodoo cards do not have FULL Open GL support, and therefore will not work with this game. If they do work (lucky), many of the effects in the game will be rendered poorly or not at all (such as the reflective surfaces). To get any true pleasure out of this game you must have one of the chipsets mentioned, otherwise stick with Q2 or UT. Q3A will just seem like a Q2 mod to those of you without the right card.

Hottest PC Game this year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

To say that Quake 3 lives up to the hype is an understatement. I'll admit that, with the exception of the incredible graphics, I was a bit underwhelmed by the downloadable demo.

The final game, however, is fantastic. The bots are great fun - they play with a variety of different styles and "personalities" that make them very life-like. As mentioned above, the graphics are mind-blowing. Q3 is the first and presently the only 3D game that I'm aware of that uses curved surfaces, and they vastly improve the visual appeal of the various environments. The levels are a bit monotonous from a "decorative" point of view, but for actual playability they offer a great deal of variety and are very fast-paced. The jump pads increase the flexibility of the maps to a great extent, allowing players to quickly move vertically.

While the Quake series has been traditionally enjoyed most by the "hard-core" gamers, id software did a good job of providing a few introductory levels in Quake 3 to let the newbies practice their skills a little bit before being thrown into the fire. And Quake is by far the reigning king of Internet play - according to id's statistics, 500-1700 people worldwide join Q3 Internet games every 5 minutes.

Before purchasing, pay close attention to the system requirements. Most mid- to high-end computers purchased in the last 18 months will run Q3 just fine, but some will require upgraded video cards (cards based on NVidia's TNT/GeForce or 3DFX's Voodoo technology are best).

Happy Fragging!

An Actual Review of the Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Well... It's fun as hell, really.

The weapon balance is very good and gameplay is fast and furious. It's a lot more like Q1 than Q2, really. Q2 was a very slow game and allowed for people to dominate without ever being killed by carrying a ton of armor. It's not like that in Q3.

The single player mode is simply amazing. The way the bots move is very convincing -- you can easily forget that you aren't playing other people. Their taunts are pretty funny, too, and give them personalities. I think that they did a great job with the difficulty levels, because the easy bots don't just stand still and the hard bots don't just rail you out of the air.

The levels look really good, but a lot of them aren't all that much fun. The outside, bounce pad levels are a riot! Some of the new power ups are great fun and remove the boredom and cheesiness of the Quad. They have Haste, Regen, Invul, Invis and Flight (I may have left one out). The teleporter adds a lot to the game, too: teleporting yourself to safety after someone knocks you off the level really frustrates the other guy!

Things I don't like. As I said, some of the levels are kind of boring. They look like Rocket Arena levels, but you still have to scrounge for weapons. The grenade launcher (my favorite in Q1 & Q2) is a bit off. The delay is too long on it, so it isn't nearly as useful. Basically, shooting behind yourself when you're being followed doesn't work.

Minor nuisances. They seem to have taken out the option to save your config, unless I'm just an idiot, and the default for multiplayer games is not rotate maps.

Fight!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quake III Arena provides an awesome gaming experience, no question. The game engine is very impressive - the player models, architecture, dynamic atmosphere (stormy skies, water, lava, mist), power-ups, weapons and weapon effects are all rendered quickly and in amazing detail, even with the lower-end graphics settings selected.

The interesting option that id software have taken with Quake III Arena is that they've created a game uniquely orientated towards groups of gamers, playing together via Internet or (preferably) LAN. This group gaming experience is amazing - I play quite regularly with four or five friends, which makes for a lot of fun. When you get bored with the traditional free-for-all killing-everyone-in-sight style of play, you can opt instead for team-based play, which adds a whole new dimension to the game - "Capture The Flag" is the best, in my humble opinion.

To cap it all, id have created and provided an impressive variety of levels with the game - gothic style, high-tech, space-based, traditional lava-heavy Quake-look - every one is markedly different, and this range makes every level feel like a separate game. When you add to this the high-quality custom user-designed levels that are popping up every day on sites like planetquake.com, it makes for a gaming experience that can't be beaten.

I highly recommend Quake III Arena - and I can't wait for the new 'Team Arena' mission pack that id are due to release soon!

Quake rules the cosmos!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Quake 3 introduces tons of new stuff while still being true to the series in gameplay. The game not being out, I have no idea whether or not it will be a big hit with me, but I have played the demo test, and I must say I am impressed. It is damn fun, something you can't say about Unreal Tournament. I give it 5.5 stars.

Q3 Arena & your computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Q3 arena has some darn nice looking graphics but it is very taxing on your system to run at any resolution from 640*480 and up. I have a PII 400 w/Voodoo3 3000 which cranks out 109fps in Quake2 at 1024*768 but lags in Quake3 a little bit at 640*480 whenever I get into a small battle. I had to disable alot of the cool lighting effects and details to get a smooth framerate while fighting. I guess it is possible that I could need new drivers or somthing but I think my stuff is pretty well up to date.

Basically I just wanted to point out that if you are going to buy Q3 Arena make sure you have have quite powerful computer system if you require perfectly smooth gameplay. I know the box says a minimum of a 233 pentium but I would hate to be the fool trying to get that to work at much over 15fps.

Quake3 Vs Unreal T

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Ive read all the other reviews about Quake3 and UT and averybody says that UT has better graphics better AI on the botmatch mode, or better skins, better models etc ... Well ive played the demos Q3 Test (new Version) and the UT demo. On my opinion Quake3 arena has MUCH MUCH better gaphics, animation and gameplay and the AI of the bots its not bad at all. Also the multiplayer code has been improved. Dont forget that its a test not a demo so it will be much more improved. Id Software made her miracle for once again....

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